"College students face pressures adjusting to a rigorous academic routine, coping with financial strains to pay tuition and academic fees, juggling academic requirements with a job and social responsibilities and maintain health due to lack of sleep and stress."
People can succeed or fail in the life of higher educational learning. It depends on how each student handles the pressure. Learning how to manage class time and study time can be a challenge when starting college for the first time. The pressures to balance
2college life, including work, social activities and relationships can be overwhelming. The more accountability and responsibility can be stressful. Traditional students may think that since they just graduated high school, college …show more content…
Now let's look at non-traditional students. I feel they suffer more adjustment problems. I am pleased that Southeast Community College offers the TRIO Program. I needed assistance with about every aspect of returning to college. TRIO helped me in so many ways. I did not know how to register for classes, then how to drop a class. I also needed help on how to manage my class and study time. I was clueless how to do work outside of class. After learning how much time would be spent on homework plus taking 13.5 credit hours, I was overwhelmed. I didn’t even realize that I could apply for scholarships until I was notified. The organization also get to do activities on and off campus. I am very thankful for being part of a great organization like TRIO. One thing that I had to learn on my own was peer pressure. Peer pressure between students can be used for all the wrong reasons. It does not matter how long you have been out of school, the stress of returning may be more than they expected. It does not matter how well you are doing grade wise, someone in class will compete to achieve better grades then you. For the students that are trying to be successful and struggle at times with other student behaviors can
People can succeed or fail in the life of higher educational learning. It depends on how each student handles the pressure. Learning how to manage class time and study time can be a challenge when starting college for the first time. The pressures to balance
2college life, including work, social activities and relationships can be overwhelming. The more accountability and responsibility can be stressful. Traditional students may think that since they just graduated high school, college …show more content…
Now let's look at non-traditional students. I feel they suffer more adjustment problems. I am pleased that Southeast Community College offers the TRIO Program. I needed assistance with about every aspect of returning to college. TRIO helped me in so many ways. I did not know how to register for classes, then how to drop a class. I also needed help on how to manage my class and study time. I was clueless how to do work outside of class. After learning how much time would be spent on homework plus taking 13.5 credit hours, I was overwhelmed. I didn’t even realize that I could apply for scholarships until I was notified. The organization also get to do activities on and off campus. I am very thankful for being part of a great organization like TRIO. One thing that I had to learn on my own was peer pressure. Peer pressure between students can be used for all the wrong reasons. It does not matter how long you have been out of school, the stress of returning may be more than they expected. It does not matter how well you are doing grade wise, someone in class will compete to achieve better grades then you. For the students that are trying to be successful and struggle at times with other student behaviors can